Big City and the world is in peril. Caractus
P Doom is an Evil Genius, a mad
scientist and schemer bent on total domination
of the city and the planet.
Only those daring heroes, the motorbike-riding
Avenger Penguins can stop him
but Marlon, Rocky and Bluey are just as likely
to stop themselves in their own
chaotic bike tracks, such is their dysfunctional
approach to this 'super hero'
game...

Marlon is the leader, a sassy smart penguin
who may well know what he wants,
yet can not co-ordinate things to achieve
it. Rocky is the biggest stumbling block.
Or indeed, a blockhead who stumbles through
the Avenger adventures in his
crash helmet, blind to his own ambitions -
maybe he should raise his visor
more often? And that's our cue to introduce
Bluey, the babbling third member
of the gang. He's as blind as Rocky, with
his Kaiser's helmet over his eyes
all of the time, but worse, he's a babbler
- babbling on in his own obscure
world. Maybe his talk is 'blue'. We can't
be sure, it's indecipherable to all
but Rocky!...

The Avenger Penguins are true petrolheads, operating
out of Irv's Garage by day.
And Fighting Doom is tough enough for the gang without
the extra vehicular
activities of The Stink Brothers, Big City's resident
Hell's Angel squad with
a whole bag of chips on their shoulder...

Doom's dastardly schemes involve such fiendish devices
as a Monstertron,
a Transanium-based time machine and even a Ruby
Laser World Dominator
And Coffee Percolater. And they also involve his
unfortunate assistant Harry
Slime who is invariably the first to test the devices
- with equally-unfortunate
results, poor fellow. Caractus Doom is an overblown
Orson Welles-type figure,
whilst Harry Slime is of course, a play on the Welles'
character Harry Lime from
that classic film 'The Third Man'. Although he actually
sounds more like
Peter Lorre...

Like Fantomcat
before it, "Avenger Penguins" was actually animated by Alfonso
Productions in Spain. Originally, it was to be called
"Hell's Penguins" but a title
change was swiftly made after objections were raised
by folks in the States.
Just like "Fantomcat", the series isn't
perhaps top draw Cosgrove Hall, but it's
still good fun with some splendid in-jokes and asides...
"Avenger
Penguins, you're reputation for honesty,
integrity and
courage go before you. But what
the heck, we're
desperate and you're cheap!..."
-
Professor Boring hires The Penguins

Episode
titlesSeries OneSeries Two
The President is a Fish
The 23rd Century
The Hog Jamboree
Mommy's Boy
Quantum Mechanic
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Penguin
Big City Little City Surprise
Fate
Computer Chaos
High Doom
I Married an Android
The Jewel in the Crown
Cat Pig Cat of Iron
A Christmas Carol
Nightmare at Tea Time
Fish Finger
Starstruck
Disgusting or What?
The Labyrinth of Doom
Rock'n'Roll Penguins
The Wild Wild West
The Computer of Doom
A Winter's Tale
Sherlock's Penguins
The Revenge of Doom
Beautie and the Beast